Dangerous Sisters of the Hebrew Bible

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Dangerous Sisters of the Hebrew Bible is written by Amy Kalmanofsky and published by Fortress Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1451479697 (ISBN 10) and 9781451479690 (ISBN 13).

Fathers, sons, and mothers take center stage in the Bible’s grand narratives, Amy Kalmanofsky observes. Sisters and sisterhood receive less attention in scholarship but, she argues, play an important role in narratives, revealing anxieties related to desire, agency, and solidarity among women playing out (and playing against) their roles in a patrilineal society. Most often, she shows, sisters are destabilizing figures in narratives about family crisis, where property, patrimony, and the resilience of community boundaries are at risk. Kalmanofsky demonstrates that the particular role of sisters had important narrative effects, revealing previously underappreciated dynamics in Israelite society.